Overview

Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighborhood of Guadalajara. Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men insightfully portrays the personal experiences of the neighborhood's residents while engaging with important questions about the nature of selfhood, subjectivity, and community identity as well as the tensions of modernity and its discontents in Mexican society.

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Author:   Valentina Napolitano
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780520233195

ISBN 10:   0520233190
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 December 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction: Prisms of Belonging and Alternative Modernities Chapter 1: Internationalizing Region, Expanding City, Neighborhoods in Transition Chapter 2: Migration, Space, and Belonging Chapter 3: Religious Discourses and Politics of Modernity Chapter 4: Medical Pluralism: Medicina Popular and Medicina Alternativa Chapter 5: Becoming a Mujercita: Rituals, Fiestas, and Religious Discourses Chapter 6: Neither Married, Widowed, Single, or Divorced: Gender Negotiation, Compliance, and Resistance Epilogue Appendix A: Homeopathic Principles Appendix B: Trees of Life and Death Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

The ethnographic result of Napolitano's work is splendid-it gives one the fascinating sensation of zooming back and forth between intimate real time conversations with the people of Polanco and a wide angle view of the city and the region through recent history. -Chris Kiefer, author of Health Work with the Poor

Author Information

Valentina Napolitano is a Research Officer at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, and a Research Fellow at Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge.

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